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	gladwell dot com - safety in the skies
		Cooper then told the pilot to fly slowly at ten thousand feet in the direction of Nevada, and not long after takeoff, somewhere over southwest Washington, he gathered up the ransom, lowered the plane's back stairs, and parachuted into the night.
		In the aftermath of Cooper's leap, "para-jacking," as it was known, became an epidemic in American skies.
		The latch was known as the Cooper Vane, and it seemed, at the time, to be an effective response to the reign of terror in the skies.
	www.gladwell.com /2001/2001_10_01_a_hijack.htm (2215 words)

	D.B. Cooper
		Once she saw what the note said, she alerted the flight crew and confronted Cooper, who showed her the inside of his bag and what appeared to be a bomb (red cylinders, wires).
		Cooper waited within the plane and the parachutes and money were brought on for him; it is thought that he asked for multiple parachutes to make the authorities figure he was going to bring someone off the plane with him, and they wouldn't risk sabotaging the chutes.
		Cooper's lasting legacy is the "Cooper Vane", a latching device that prevents an airline door from being opened while the plane is in the air.
	www.rotten.com /library/crime/unsolved-crimes/d-b-cooper (0 words)

	Cooper vane
		A Cooper vane is a mechanical aerodynamic wedge that prevents the Airstair or rear stairway of an aircraft from being lowered in flight.
		Cooper, who used the rear stairway to exit a plane in flight and make his escape via parachute.
		The Cooper vane is a very simple device consisting of a spring-loaded paddle connected to a plate.
	www.1bx.com /en/Cooper_Vane.htm (0 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact
		Cooper then told the pilot to fly slowly at ten thousand feet in the direction of Nevada, and not long after takeoff, somewhere over southwest Washington, he gathered up the ransom, lowered the plane's back stairs, and parachuted into the night.
		In the aftermath of Cooper's leap, "para-jacking," as it was known, became an epidemic in American skies.
		The latch was known as the Cooper Vane, and it seemed, at the time, to be an effective response to the reign of terror in the skies.
	www.iasa.com.au /folders/Security_Issues/Safetyintheskies.html (2203 words)

	Science Fair Projects - D. B. Cooper
		Cooper is the name used to refer to a famous airplane hijacker who, after receiving a ransom payout of $200,000, leapt from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest.
		Following three similar (but less successful) hijackings in 1972, the Federal Aviation Administration required that all Boeing 727 aircraft be fitted with a device known as the "Cooper Vane", a mechanical aerodynamic wedge, which prevents the rear stairway from being lowered in flight.
		Weber related was the fact she had checked out a book on the Cooper case from the local library and saw notations in it that matched her husband's handwriting.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/D.B._Cooper (1243 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > D.B. Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At 16.35 on Thanksgiving Eve, November 24, 1971 in the United States, a man travelling under the name Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727-051, flight 305, flying from Portland, Oregon's International Airport (PDX), with the threat of a bomb (he had a briefcase containing wires and "red sticks").
		The FBI questioned and then released a man by the name of Daniel B. Cooper, who was never considered a significant suspect.
		Following three similar but unsuccessful hijackings in 1972, Boeing 727 aircraft were ordered by the FAA to be fitted with a so-called Cooper Vane, a mechanical aerodynamic wedge, to prevent the rear stairway from being lowered in flight.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/d./D.B._Cooper (333 words)

	What is a Cooper Vane?
		A Cooper Vane is a security device which is fitted onto aircraft with built in sets of stairs, known as “Airstairs.” Most aircraft do not have Airstairs anymore, because they are designed to taxi up to terminals, and at small airports, airport staff will wheel out a stairway for passengers to use.
		Cooper and the money were never seen again, suggesting that the ploy may not have been entirely successful, but observers noted that the Airstair in the Boeing 727, the type of aircraft Cooper hijacked, was particularly vulnerable to this type of activity.
		The Cooper Vane is only one such safety measure, and on a well maintained modern aircraft, numerous other safeguards are in place, such as locks on the doors leading to the flight deck.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-a-cooper-vane.htm (0 words)

	Cooper and New York's Dutch Heritage
		Cooper remained true to this Knickerbocker stereotype even as late as 1851, the year he died, when he drew on the same body of imagery in The Towns of Manhattan.
		Cooper was, by the way, the only writer of his period who to my knowledge stresses this feature of the rural Dutch house.
		Cooper as "editor" of Corny's narrative adds a note at one point indicating that such modest, low, usually one-story, stone houses tended to be the favored homes of even the prosperous Dutch of New York's countryside.
	external.oneonta.edu /cooper/articles/ala/1994ala-franklin.html (2420 words)

	Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The son of a large landowner, Cooper was educated at Oxford University and Lincoln's Inn.
		In 1640 Cooper was elected to the House of Commons.
		Cooper was also a member of the commission that tried the Regicides.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /STUshafesburyE.htm (470 words)

	Building a BMW
		Cooper subsequently installed a Quaife limited-slip ATB differential in a 3 Series case for optimum hook-up.
		Cooper commissioned Hamlin Fabrication to install a custom rollcage, carved from chro-moly and tied into all four upper suspension towers.
		Cooper wisely upgraded the brakes with a kit from KVR Performance in Ottowa, Conn. The kit is based on four-piston AP calipers that grip two-piece rotors (vented and drilled) with aluminum hats.
	www.vwtrendsweb.com /training/epc_bmw_2002/index.html (1345 words)

	Who was D.B. Cooper? — Infoplease.com
		On the night before Thanksgiving in 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper boarded a flight from Portland, Ore. to Seattle and passed a note to the flight attendant that he had a bomb.
		Despite an FBI investigation that included interviews with almost 100,000 suspects and witnesses, resulting in a case file 60 volumes thick, the Cooper case remains the only unsolved domestic skyjacking case in history.
		After the incident, Boeing 727's, like the one Cooper jumped from, were equipped with a device that prevents the rear stairs from being lowered during flight.
	www.infoplease.com /askeds/db-cooper.html (300 words)

	Colored Reflections - The Seventies, D.B. Cooper
		Cooper had demanded $200,000 and four parachutes, and told the flight team to empty the plane.
		Cooper sent the stewardess forward to the cockpit and about 30 minutes after takeoff, began opening the plane's rear stairway.
		Cooper became a cult hero in the anti-establishment political climate of the 70s, particularly since he was seen as someone who beat the establishment and didn't hurt anyone.
	www.coloredreflections.com /decades/Decade.cfm?Dec=3&Typ=2&Sty=1&SID=232 (576 words)

	D.B. Cooper
		Cooper parachuted from 10,000 feet into the flness of a Thanksgiving eve storm with a 21-pound bag of $20 bills tied around his waist.
		The area where Cooper was thought to have landed is drained by the Lewis River, which empties into the Columbia downstream from where the money was found.
		Himmelsbach says Cooper may have been ex-military, but more likely was an ex-con, a loner who burned friends and family and was desperate enough to ignore the long odds.
	home.earthlink.net /~quade/dbcooper.html (2360 words)

	D. B. Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cooper is the name used to refer to a famous airplane hijacker.
		One of the 1972 hijackings was by a man named Richard McCoy Jr., a Vietnam veteran a helicopter pilot and an avid skydiver who got away with $500,000 but was captured, escaped, and was killed in a subsequent gunfight.
		The television series Newsradio featured a story arc in which the character Jimmy James was arrested with the belief that he was DB Cooper.
	www.mywiseowl.com /articles/D._B._Cooper (987 words)

	D. B. Cooper - TheBestLinks.com - Columbia River, Federal Aviation Administration, November 24, Portland, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cooper, Columbia River, Federal Aviation Administration, November 24...
		The image shown is a 1972 FBI composite drawing of D. Cooper.
		Following three similar (but less successful) hijackings in 1972, Boeing 727 aircraft were ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration to be fitted with a device known as a "Cooper Vane", a mechanical aerodynamic wedge, which prevents the rear stairway from being lowered in flight.
	www.thebestlinks.com /D._B._Cooper.html (633 words)

	D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act
		On November 24, 1971, Dan Cooper boarded a Northwest Orient Airlines flight from Portland to Seattle, demanded and received a $200,000 ransom, and on the return flight he parachuted into the forest and has never been seen again.
		Cooper briefly opened the briefcase and the stewardess later recalled she saw some red cylinders and wires.
		The device is nicknamed the "Cooper Vane." Regulations requiring the scanning of all luggage took effect in 1972 making carrying a bomb on board that much more difficult (though sadly not impossible).
	www.super70s.com /Super70s/News/1971/November/24-DB_Cooper.asp (2162 words)

	Cooperstown's Cooper
		Cooper was a progressive farmer and an active civic leader, serving as a Vestryman of Christ Church, and as a founder and Corresponding Secretary of the Otsego Agricultural Society, which in 1817 sponsored New York State's first County Fair.
		In terms both of Cooper's Jeffersonian vision of a stable, agrarian democracy, and of the standards of culture and manners he had learned to appreciate in Europe, most of this change was for the worse.
		As Cooper returned to the writing of novels, and his literary reputation again climbed, his local position strengthened and he was recognized as a notable of whom the village could boast.
	external.oneonta.edu /cooper/articles/suny/1989suny-macdougall.html (2734 words)

	Roiling On the River - 9/26/2005 - Midwest Contractor
		Each turning vane is formed with six PZ-22 piles, put together and precisely placed and spaced in the river in front of the intake structure.
		To place the vanes into dry ground would be demanding enough, but the crew has to fight the river current as they set and bury the piles approximately 18 feet into the riverbed.
		In addition to the Cooper Nuclear Station project, Western Contracting is currently at work on a $15-million flood control flood control job at Perry Creek in Sioux City, Iowa, as well as a $650,000 park improvement project at Crystal Cove Lake in South Sioux City, Neb., that includes surgical dredging and other mitigation features.
	www.acppubs.com /article/CA6258394.html (1483 words)

	D.B. Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At 16:35 on Thanksgiving Eve, November 24, 1971 in the United States, a man travelling under the name Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727-051, flight 305, flying from Portland International Airport (PDX) in Portland, Oregon, with the threatof a bomb (he had a briefcase containing wires and "red sticks").
		The FBI questioned and then released a man by the name of Daniel B. Cooper, who was neverconsidered a significant suspect.
		Following three similar but unsuccessful hijackings in 1972, Boeing 727 aircraft wereordered by the Federal AviationAdministration to be fitted with a device known as a " Cooper Vane ", a mechanical aerodynamic wedge, which prevents the rear stairway from being lowered inflight.
	www.therfcc.org /d.b.-cooper-51692.html (325 words)

	Thomas Vane (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On becoming a Catholic, he resigned these preferments, and went with his wife to Paris, where he practised as a physician, taking the degree of M.D. there or at some other foreign university.
		At Parish he wrote an account of his conversion, the preface being dated 4 August, 1642, which was published in 1643 under the title, "A Lost Sheep returned Home: or the Motives of the Conversion of Thomas Vane." This book ran through several editions and was answered by the Anglican writer Edward Chisenhall (1653).
		VANE, A Lost Sheep returned Home (Paris, 1643); DODD, Church Hist., III (Brussels vere Wolverhampton, 1742); GILLOW, Bibl.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/v/vane,thomas.html (208 words)

	The Cooper Vane : English : TranslatorsCafe.com Forums
		Cooper and four crew members took off with his instructions to fly towards Mexico.
		Cooper, who became somewhat of a folk-hero in succeeding years, was probably killed in the jump or succumbed to the elements.
		Cooperâs lasting contribution to aircraft design is the "Cooper Vane," a latching device on Boeing 727s that prevents the tail stairway from being lowered in flight.
	www.translatorscafe.com /cafe/MegaBBS/thread-view.asp?threadid=1562&posts=1 (0 words)

	The Legend of D.B. Cooper
		Moments later, with the plane cruising at a pedestrian 175 mph, Cooper pitched himself into the teeth of a rainstorm and hurtled toward the spiky tops of evergreens and the frigid waters of the Columbia River.
		Himmelsbach long has championed one: Cooper could not have survived his leap into the rarefied air, made freezing by the speed of his plunge, or the bone-crunching landing on the uneven ground or the numbing chop of the Columbia River.
		The composite sketch of Cooper bore an uncanny resemblance to McCoy.
	www.oregonlive.com /special/current/dbcooper.ssf?/special/current/dbcooper_story1.frame (1718 words)

	Cooper, (Alfred) Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cooper, (Alfred) Duff, 1st Viscount ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was elected Conservative member of Parliament in 1924 and was secretary of war 1935–37, but resigned from the Admiralty in 1938 over Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy.
		Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Cooper%2c+(Alfred)+Duff%2c+1st+Viscount+Norwich (209 words)

	besthitz
		Cooper hijacked Northwest Airlines Flight 305 when it was en route from Portland, OR to Seattle, WA.
		Cooper", the hijacker, parachuted from the back of a 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest.
		Boeing subsequently modified the design with the "Cooper Vane" so that the airstair couldn't be lowered in flight.
	www.besthitz.com /articleresources/?title=Boeing_727 (2245 words)

	Unusual accidents (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cooper and four crew members took off with his instructions to fly towards Mexico.
		Cooper, who became somewhat of a folk-hero in succeeding years, was probably killed in the jump or succumbed to the elements.
		Cooper’s lasting contribution to aircraft design is the "Cooper Vane," a latching device on Boeing 727s that prevents the tail stairway from being lowered in flight.
	www.planecrashinfo.com /unusual.htm (2801 words)

	A new turbine for natural gas pipelines
		This is the approach followed by Cooper Energy Services of Mount Vernon, Ohio, a division of Cooper Cameron Corp. of Houston, with its Coberra 6000 range of coupled turbines, which incorporate the Rolls-Royce RB211-24G aircraft-derivative gas turbine and a Cooper-Bessemer power turbine from Cooper Energy Services.
		The IP compressor modification was intended to reduce the speed at a given level of flow, in order to increase efficiency and ensure the potential of the compressor to be further uprated.
		To obtain closer clearance sealing at the disk rim and blade tips, a strutted support frame with seven struts was introduced to improve control of concentricity between the rotor and stator structures of the power turbine.
	www.memagazine.org /backissues/membersonly/may99/features/naturalgas/naturalgas.html (2197 words)

	Dan or DB Cooper - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
		Cooper, aka Dan Cooper, was a notorious airplane hijacker who in 1971, after receiving a ransom payout of $200,000, leapt from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest.
		The book made the case that Cooper and McCoy were really the same person, citing similar methods of hijacking and a tie left by Cooper similar to those worn by Brigham Young students.
		Weber related was the fact she had checked out a book on the Cooper case from the local library and saw notations in it that matched her husband's handwriting.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=73327 (1492 words)

	D. B. Cooper - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
		Cooper pulled his buccaneering swipe in the twilight of the 47-year tenure of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who died not long after the hijacking.
		Following three similar (but less successful) hijackings in 1972, the Federal Aviation Administration required that all Boeing 727 aircraft be fitted with a device known as the "Cooper Vane", a mechanical aerodynamic wedge that prevents the rear stairway from being lowered in flight.
		a device known as the "Cooper Vane", a mechanical aerodynamic wedge that prevents the rear stairway from being lowered in flight.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=66320 (1914 words)

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